MS Dhoni's direction key to India's 2019 World Cup dreams: Virender Sehwag

SINGAPORE: Former India opener Virender Sehwag feels that the men-in-blue can lift the 50-over World Cup title in England and Wales one year from now if the adolescents prepare under the direction of the prepared Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who was instrumental in getting the container home in 2011.

"As a youngster, I played my first World Cup 2003 with Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Anil Kumble and they were helping me out," Sehwag said during a panel discussion at the Global Indian International School (GIIS) here on Sunday.

"These youngsters have a very good senior player like Dhoni who can teach and guide them on how to prepare themselves for the 2019 World Cup," the flamboyant opener added.

Sharing his experience of being a piece of the 2011 World Cup winning squad, the unstable right-hander stated: "Two years previously the occasion, we had a group meeting where we concluded that we will treat each amusement at the 2011 World Cup as a thump out diversion. In the event that we lose, we are out of the World Cup. We won all the matches in the keep running up to the finals and that is the way we set ourselves up." 

Sehwag likewise talked on an assortment of points at the board dialog including the essentialness of information investigation in sports and the need to empower youthful ability through grants. 

Prior, in a 30-minute discourse, he had shared his background with the gathering of people involving understudies, educators, guardians and representatives of GIIS.